The worst job in Britain – child of an MP

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Every time you slip up, you harm your parent’s career. Every time he does, you suffer too

Ghastly, gut-wrenching, hideous, it’s almost impossible to read the texts between Chris Huhne and his son without feeling dreadful for both of them. Here is an 18-year-old boy, caught up in the nightmare of his parents’ very public divorce.

The day after his father announced, midway through a football match, that he was leaving, his son bought the Sunday papers so his mother could read about his father’s infidelity and love for a bisexual woman. Worse was to come: his father was then accused of lying about a speeding offence ten years previously when he pretended that his wife had